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Theodora

Hardcover • 2016 • English

Theodora

By David Potter

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About the book

Two of the most famous mosaics from the ancient world, in the church of San Vitale in Ravenna, depict the sixth-century emperor Justinian and, on the wall facing him, his wife, Theodora (497-548). This majestic portrait gives no inkling of Theodora's very humble beginnings or her improbable rise to fame and power. Raised in a family of circus performers near Constantinople's Hippodrome, she abandoned a successful acting career in her late teens to follow a lover whom she was legally forbidden to...Show more

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ISBN

9780199740765

Publisher

Oxford University Press Inc

Published year

2016

Language

English

Original title

Theodora

Format

Hardcover

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